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 I read the article “Dang! I Just Missed It” By David Warlick is about seeing Mars as big as the moon to the naked eye. This kind of closeness between these two planets is never going to happen again until 2287! David searched on the internet only to find the whole thing was a hoax. It has just been an email sent every year since 2005 but it originated from the 2003 email when the encounter actually happened even though being 55 million miles away from us was only just a bright star. In truth Mars could be seen as big as the moon if you used a 75 power magnification telescope. This proves that not everything you hear on television and the internet is not always true. This has changed a lot since the 1960s because they had no internet and everyone just started to own a television. They would believe everything they heard because they didn’t question anything they just believed what they read. This affects me because if I am doing a homework assignment and I search on the internet for help on a question how do I know the answer is right? I think everything in the world would be so much easier and simpler if people wrote the truth and said what was actually going on in the world giving us the truth and giving us the real facts about current events than making up some fake story to grab attention and get everyone paranoid about a false statement. I hope things will change and people don’t have to question if what they hear and they don’t listen to the misanthropes trying to lie.